Service Ethics

Your own cultural identities have conditioned your counselling values and beliefs. This section will explore how differences in values and beliefs may affect the relationship between counsellor and client, tools to help you compare and contrast your own values and beliefs with other counsellors and how to identify common principles that should guide settlement counselling.

Related Web Sites

Questions about Culture, Gender Equality and Development Cooperation
An exploration of how the promotion of gender equality can be perceived as interfering with cultural norms of some groups, and whether gender equality should not be promoted for ethical reasons.

Social Work Glossary
Definitions to commonly used words in the social work field.

Recommended Reading

Client Involvement and Empowerment
How to include your clients in decision-making that may affect them, ensuring that your organization is sensitive to issues of cultural, racial and gender differences that can affect our organization''s performance.

Creating Equity Reports - A Guide for Hospitals
This is a guide for hospitals planning to prepare equity reports. These reports identify ethnic and racial disparities in organizations and suggest ways to reduce them - May 2008.

Diversity, culture and counselling: A Canadian perspective
Resources from a course designed for those who desire to work with the culturally diverse people either in a counselling or teaching capacity.

Immigrant Settlement Counselling: A Training Guide
This resource is an attempt to describe the dimensions of settlement work and to provide tools that can be used to train workers to be effective settlement counsellors - 2000.

Resources on Confidentiality for Self-Help/Mutual Aid Support Groups
This kit discusses confidentiality, including when you must break confidentiality in cases of abuse or self-harm.